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Filippo Carcano (Milan, 1840–1914) was an Italian painter.

Biography

A pupil of

Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...

at the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di ...

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

as from 1855, Carcano won the Canonica Prize with a work on a historical subject in 1862, while experimenting in the same period with painting from life. Carcano became friends with

Francesco Filippini Francesco Filippini (18 September 1853 – 6 March 1895) was an Italian painter from Lombardy. He was much influenced by Tranquillo Cremona. Life Filippini was born in Brescia, in Lombardy in northern Italy, on 18 September 1853, into a p ...

and

Eugenio Gignous Eugenio Gignous (4 August 1850 – 30 August 1906) was an Italian painter born in Milan, which when he was born was part of the Austrian Empire. Biography The son of a silk merchant from Lyon, Gignous displayed a precocious talent for painting an ...

, with whom he would sometimes go to paint in

Gignese Gignese is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about south of Verbania. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 913 and an area of .All de ...

. His interest in themes connected with reality is confirmed in subsequent works presenting scenes of an immediacy that reflects the contemporary developments in the field of the photography. One example is ''Break Time during Work on the Exhibition of 1881'' (1887, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan), presented at the Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti di Milano in 1881. A leading figure in the school of Lombard Naturalism, he combined scenes of everyday life with numerous landscapes, featuring the surroundings of

Lake Maggiore Lake Maggiore (, ; it, Lago Maggiore ; lmo, label=Western Lombard, Lagh Maggior; pms, Lagh Magior; literally 'Greater Lake') or Verbano (; la, Lacus Verbanus) is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps. It is the second largest la ...

and the Mottarone as from the 1870s and the mountain peaks on the border with

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

at the end of the century. It was in the same period that he took up Symbolism, winning the Prince Umberto Prize at the Milan Triennale of 1897. Among his pupils was Umberto Bazzoli. One of his works is on display of the

Museo Cantonale d'Arte Museo may refer to: * Museo, 2018 Mexican drama heist film *Museo (Naples Metro) Museo is a station on line 1 of the Naples Metro. It was opened on 5 April 2001 as the eastern terminus of the section of the line between Vanvitelli and Museo. ...

Lugano Lugano (, , ; lmo, label=Ticinese dialect, Ticinese, Lugan ) is a city and municipality in Switzerland, part of the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino. It is the largest city of both Ticino and the Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Luga ...

. The earthen tones and proletarian thematics often recall the works of

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian divisionist painter. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a divisionist technique ...

. Of his landscapes, one author states his ''name is associated with pictures of limitless and nebulous horizons''.Modern Italy, 1748-1922
By Conte Pietro Orsi, 1899, page 399.

Gallery

Pescadores en la playa - Filippo Carcano.jpg, ''Fisherman on the Beach'' Pescarenico Filippo Carcano.jpg, ''Pescarenico'' Filippo Carcano - Los creyentes.jpg, ''The Believers'' Filippo Carcano - Igreja da Saúde.jpg, ''Igreja da Saúde'' Filippo carcano, in pieno inverno (inverno in engadina), 1909.jpg, ''Inverno in Engadina''

References

* Laura Casone
Filippo Carcano
online catalogu
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by

Fondazione Cariplo Fondazione Cariplo is a charitable foundation in Milan, Italy. It was created in December 1991 when the Amato law, Law no. 218 of 30 July 1990, came into force. Under this law, saving banks were required to separate into a not-for-profit found ...

, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article). Fillipo Carcano Archive

External links

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